Ruby

“I knew nothing of love, but I knew I wanted her, needed her, and dreamed of her. It was the most inappropriate and irresponsible thing I could ever want for myself. I just wanted to feel, and a single touch from her set my body alight. I wanted her hands on every single part of me, and I wanted it more than I had ever wanted anything in my life. It was the most selfish desire in the world, but I wanted her more than a crown, more than a throne, more than air.”
― Amber V. Nicole, The Book of Azrael

“He's an icy wind that gushes down my throat and soothes the ravaged path. He's heavy drops of rain that dump upon the sizzling ember of my self-hatred. He's a lightning bolt of life-electrifying my heart and forcing it to beat faster.”
― Sarah A. Parker, To Flame a Wild Flower

“She doesn't need to get better. If she decides to break apart this whole ship to deal with what happened, I'll help her. If she wants to kick your lying ass into the depths of the sea, I'll take your legs. If she she decides to rip the world to shreds for what it's done to her, I'll cheer her on. And if you were a true friend... you would as well.”
― Sophia St. Germain, A Promise so Bold and Broken

“I want to speak. To tell him I didn’t want to live in a world without
him.
That I still don’t.
I want to tell him that I don’t just love him. That a single four-letter
word could never define the way I feel, nor could it explain the way my
soul bled with his absence, driving me to do things that will always stick to
my skin like a layer of filth.”
― Sarah A. Parker, To Flame a Wild Flower